If you ask people what they appreciate the most, I assume you'll get a lot of answers such as God (if they're religious), family and friends. For me, that also is true, but in this case, I decided to make a list of five things related to science fiction that I'm grateful for, and at the same time, honor Thanksgiving, which seems to have been overshadowed by Christmas more than ever this year.

Here is what I'm grateful for about science fiction (in no particular order):

2. 20th Century Fox for taking a chance on George Lucas' Star Wars film and for giving Lucas the film's marketing rights, which he sure took advantage of to make the Star Wars franchise a huge success.

4. The creation of hyperspace travel for science fiction, because if there was no faster-than-light travel, than there wouldn't be much interstellar travel.

5. Mystery Science Theater 3000, because if you can make science fiction fans laugh at films in that genre, then it truly doesn't matter how character Mike Nelson "eats and breaths and other science facts."

Not hard to see where your heart lies. I love my Encyclopedia of Science fiction! I enjoy sci-fi, but have never tried to write it, but I will, so I'm following you in the hope of getting some of the atmosphere!

Thank you not only for the excellent list, but also for making me realize my own sci-fi deficiencies. (I'd never even heard of Anderson, Clement, or Kawamori.) And of course, now I have to go find some MST3K to watch, since it's been almost a year since the last time (and I wouldn't even call Manos: Hands of Fate sci-fi).

Hope you have a great Thanksgiving, whether or not your turkey comes out of a food replicator!

Nate -- "Manos: The Hands of Fate" ... although one of MST3K non-science fiction movie entries, it was a awfully good episode, don't you think? Thanks for following! P.S. My food replicator created chicken for Thanksgiving instead of Turkey. Have any spare parts to fix it?

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